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 * Topic: Animal habitats **

RI.2.1 - Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. RI.2.2 - Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. RI.2.5 - Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. RI.2.9 - Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. RRF.2.1 - Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RRF.2.4a - Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. W.2.8 - Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. SL.2.1 - Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. SL.2.3 - Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue. L.2.1 - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. L.2.1b - Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish). L.2.4b - Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).
 * Common Core standards: **

Students will be able to understand, recognize, apply, and analyze the following skills:
 * Suggested student objectives: **
 * Text and Graphic Features
 * Plural Nouns
 * Final Blends
 * Informational Paragraph
 * Prefixes


 * Suggested additional readings: **
 * __What Do You Know about World Habitats?__ by Suzanne Slade
 * __Life in a Pond__ by Carol Lindeen (also in series: ocean, desert, forest, polar region, stream, rain forest and wetland)
 * __Ocean__ by Samantha Gray
 * __Ocean Food Webs__ by Paul Fleisher
 * __Deserts__ by Angela Royston
 * __North Pole South Pole__ by Nancy Smiler Levinson
 * __The Clown in the Gown Drives the Car with the Star: a book about dipthongs and R-controlled vowels__ by Brian P. Cleary

Journeys lesson activities Enchanted Learning - printable prefix exercise Brainpopjr - video about ch consonant blend Brainpopjr - video about features of informational texts Study Zone - sections of books Enchanted Learning - printable book template including table of contents PBS - article and video about biomes and biodiversity Brainpopjr - video about freshwater habitats Brainpopjr - video about arctic habitats Brainpopjr - video about ocean habitats Brainpopjr -video about rainforest habitats Brainpopjr - video about forest habitats Brainpopjr - video about desert habitats New Hampshire Public Television - information about human impact on habitats Kid Zone - printable habitat exercise BBC - interactive habitat/species exercise Burke Museum - interactive backyard habitat activity BookFlix - paired fiction/informational read-aloud books about pond life National Gallery of Art - 1899 painting of pond at Giverny, France entitled "The Japanese Footbridge" by Claude Monet [|BookFlix - paired informational and fiction read-aloud books about swamps]
 * Resource links: **

Student learning outcome: Use text features in nonfiction texts to identify explicit information. Duration: approximately 50 minutes Necessary Materials//:// //Provided//:
 * Activities: **
 * Example Chart
 * Independent practice worksheet

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 * __Deserts__ by Darlene R. Stille
 * Chart paper
 * Markers
 * Informational books about animals at a variety of levels from classroom or school library
 * Lesson Plan

Teacher will explain that good researchers use informational books to answer questions. Teacher will read aloud questions about the desert (see Direct Teaching and Guided Practice Example Chart in Teacher and Student Materials). Teacher will model how to use the Table of Contents in the book __Deserts__ by Darlene R. Stille to decide where the answers to the questions may be located in the book. Teacher will read aloud pages 5–7. Teacher will note that the answer to the first question is “right there” in the text. Teacher will write the answer to the first question on the chart. Ask: "How did I find the information I needed in the book?" Students should respond that you thought about a question and then looked at the Table of Contents and determined where the information was in the book. Students and teacher will read the next question and use the table of contents to decide where the answer may be located in the book. Using the table of contents as a guide, we will continue reading pages 9–18 and 36–43 and chart the answers to the rest of our questions.
 * ===DIRECT TEACHING===
 * TIP:** When modeling how to use table of contents also define it as a list of chapters found in a book. Point out that the table of contents lists the chapters and is in page number order.
 * ===THINK CHECK===
 * ===GUIDED PRACTICE===
 * TIP:** You may want to make copies of the Table of Contents for students for use with the guided practice. This will allow them to tell the teacher which chapter to go to for the answer to the next explicit information question before you continue reading.
 * ReadWorks - printable example chart

Students will find information about an animal in books, using the table of contents.They will answer questions about an animal and write the title of the book and page number where the answer was found. Note: Multiple books on a variety of animals and at a variety of reading levels will be needed for the students. This may be a project best suited for the library, when available.
 * ** ASSESSMENTS **
 * ===INDEPENDENT PRACTICE===

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